Throughout history, the deadliest disease outbreaks and pandemics have decimated societies, killing millions. From the Black Death to Covid-19, these outbreaks have changed societies forever. Five ...

New data suggests an eruption cooled Europe, disrupted harvests and pushed Italian states into grain trades that may have ...

Allcott, Hunt, Levi Boxell, Jacob Conway, Matthew Gentzkow, Michael Thaler, and David Yang. 2020. “Polarization and Public Health: Partisan Differences in Social Distancing during the Coronavirus ...

A landmark discovery by teams from two Florida universities has unearthed one of history's greatest mysteries — what caused the Plague of Justinian. It killed up to 50 million people in the sixth ...

Mr. Kenny is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and the author of “The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease.” You may remember that a pandemic began ...

Virus family history could help scientists identify which strains have potential to become the so-called Disease X that causes the next global pandemic. Virus family history could help scientists ...

Almost five years after COVID blew into our lives, the main thing standing between us and the next global pandemic is luck. And with the advent of flu season, that luck may well be running out. The ...

A new warning from global health experts is raising alarms about the potential for a bird flu pandemic that could outpace the ...

The world is on the verge of Disease X pandemic outbreak. Yes, the sound of it may pass as the stuff that can only be found in science-fiction blockbuster movies or bestseller novels. It also has the ...